Bottlenecks in Bernoulli serial lines with rework

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 208-217

  Biller, Stephan ^a   Li, Jingshan ^b   Marin, Samuel P ^a   Meerkov, Semyon M ^c   Zhang, Liang ^d  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Center for Manufacturing   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

Bernoulli machines; Bottleneck identification; Serial line with rework

Indexed keywords

BERNOULLI; BUFFER PARAMETERS; MEASURED DATA; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; SERIAL LINE;

THROUGHPUT;

EID: 77950860491     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2009.2023463     Document Type: Article

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